{"id":7292,"date":"2017-10-04T22:21:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T22:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=7292"},"modified":"2017-10-23T01:20:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T01:20:26","slug":"why-polish-soccer-players-walk-out-with-kids-before-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/why-polish-soccer-players-walk-out-with-kids-before-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Polish soccer players walk out with kids before the game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine the thrill of standing beside a football star, hearing the roar of the crowd in front of millions of fans! We see them before every match on television. They walk out, hold hands with the players and look absolutely adorable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Player escort<\/strong> (also called <strong>match mascot<\/strong>) is a child who accompanies football player entering the pitch.In Polish we call it <strong>&#8220;Dzieci\u0119ca Eskorta&#8221;<\/strong>. Player escorts hold hands with the footballer while they walk in and stay with the player during the playing of the national anthem. The children are usually between 6 and 10 years old.\u00a0In addition to assisting players, they often have duties such as carrying flags, helping the sideline ball crew and playing matches with each other.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2017\/10\/b7361e2ca0caf87196ad4a3214c9.jpeg\" aria-label=\"B7361e2ca0caf87196ad4a3214c9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7294 size-full\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wprost.pl\/pilka-nozna\/10080110\/chory-franek-opowiedzial-o-spotkaniu-z-lewandowskim-moj-kolega-swietnie-sie-spisal.html\"  alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"507\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2017\/10\/b7361e2ca0caf87196ad4a3214c9.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2017\/10\/b7361e2ca0caf87196ad4a3214c9.jpeg 760w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2017\/10\/b7361e2ca0caf87196ad4a3214c9-350x233.jpeg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Children have appeared with football players at least since the 1990s either as one mascot for each team or one for every player.\u00a0The UEFA Euro 2000 was one of the first major events where player escorts aapeared with every footballer. In club games children are usually members of youth teams or contest winners.\u00a0Since 2002 World Cup or European Championshipescorts are selected in a competition hosted by McDonald&#8217;s, sponsor of the event.\u00a0The McDonald\u2019s Player Escort Program brings together the stars of today with the stars of tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2017\/10\/800px-Polish_anthem_-_Euro_2012.jpg\" aria-label=\"800px Polish Anthem   Euro 2012\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7293\"  alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2017\/10\/800px-Polish_anthem_-_Euro_2012.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2017\/10\/800px-Polish_anthem_-_Euro_2012.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2017\/10\/800px-Polish_anthem_-_Euro_2012-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2017\/10\/800px-Polish_anthem_-_Euro_2012-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are various reasons why players walk in with children. These include promoting children rights campaigns, bringing the element of innocence to the game, fulfilling children dreams or making profit of it.\u00a0The children are intended to remind players to be\u00a0 respectful of their opponents&#8217; shared humanity and to curb unsporting behavior on the field.\u00a0Teams often select children from local schools or clubs, or champions of local youth tournaments and leagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2017\/10\/b7361e2ca0caf87196ad4a3214c9-350x233.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2017\/10\/b7361e2ca0caf87196ad4a3214c9-350x233.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2017\/10\/b7361e2ca0caf87196ad4a3214c9.jpeg 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Imagine the thrill of standing beside a football star, hearing the roar of the crowd in front of millions of fans! We see them before every match on television. They walk out, hold hands with the players and look absolutely adorable. Player escort (also called match mascot) is a child who accompanies football player entering&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/why-polish-soccer-players-walk-out-with-kids-before-the-game\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":7294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7292","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7306,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292\/revisions\/7306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}